Knifetooth dogfish
| Knifetooth dogfish | |
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| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Chondrichthyes |
| Subclass: | Elasmobranchii |
| Order: | Squaliformes |
| Family: | Somniosidae |
| Genus: | Scymnodon |
| Species: | S. ringens |
| Binomial name | |
| Scymnodon ringens Barbosa du Bocage & Brito Capello, 1864 | |
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| Range of the knifetooth dogfish (in blue) | |
The knifetooth dogfish, is a harmless sleeper shark of the family Somniosidae, found in the eastern Atlantic, from Scotland to Spain, Portugal, and Senegal, and the southwest Pacific from New Zealand, between latitudes 58°N and 15°N, at depths of between 200 and 1,600 m. Its length is up to 1.1 m. [1]
References
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2014). "Scymnodon ringens" in FishBase. November 2014 version.